Kasa Outdoor Smart Plug, Smart Home Wi-Fi Outlet Timer, Max Load 15A/1875W, IP64 Weather Resistance, Compatible with Alexa, Google Home & SmartThings, No Hub Required, ETL Certified(KP401)

I purchased this to replace a smart plug that could not take the Las Vegas heat - early days, but so far, so good with the Kasa. Easy to set up and works fine with Alexa. I had an early concern as the pics on Amazon show the Kasa with a straight and a 90 degree plug - a kind Amazoner answered my question, saying that his was a 90 degree - which is what I needed - so I ordered one. Had a bad moment when it arrived and the photo on the box showed a straight plug, but the Kasa itself is a 90 degree plug and works well. Ill update if I experience heat failure with this unit.

Great product.....does what it was intended to do. Have it set up for backyard accent lighting. I use the scheduled timer to turn it on and off automatically. The app works great!

I bought this dimmer plug to use for my patio lights. The thing I liked best is that I can control the lights from inside my house using Alexa and speaking the commands....no more feeling around in the dark for the plug to plug the lights in. It was very easy to connect to Alexa and works perfectly. It has a lot of functions which I probably wont use but they are there in case I change my mind. Great product, well worth buying.

I first purchased the Meross Outdoor Plug for a hot water recirculating pump that I wanted to control using my phone. Hence, rather than having the pump running 24/7, I could simply turn the recirculating pump on whenever I needed hot water, with the touch of a button on my phone. At first, the Meross worked well, but then would start to intermittently lose the wifi signal, requiring a trip outdoors to where both my water heater and the recirculating pump were located so I could re-establish the wifi connection. This often occurred late at night, in the cold, and became so frequently frustrating, that I decided to try a different plug. Hence, my purchase of the Kasa Smart KP400 plug. It took a few tries to get the smart feature to register (an automatic shut-off after running for five minutes), but the connection to my wifi has been rock solid. I have not had to reset the link once since installation about a month ago. So far, so good. One caveat with the smart features that I had to figure out on my own--the app will show you when (date and time) it was installed, and it uses this information to coordinate with your instructions to the smart feature (e.g., turn on the device at such-and-such a time, on such-and-such days). BEFORE you program your smart features, refresh the date and time of installation, even if the date and time are correct! (There is a button in the app to refresh.) My smart features would not work correctly until I performed this one simple action. Had I known beforehand, it would have saved me hours of trying to figure out why those features did not work. This is the only reason for the four-star rating of the timer function. So far, Im happy with the product. Hope it stays that way!

A quick note for anyone installing this outside - Dont forget to use some Dielectric Grease on both the cord and the plug to help prevent water intrusion and corrosion of the metal. Pros - Super fast response time - Good wifi reception - Corded design doesnt block outlets and allows use in covered boxes - Status indicator light is useful for troubleshooting - Local Switch is really handy to have when testing or when internet is down - Low standby voltage Cons - 300 Watts is the max load and that is not very many incandescent lights (for example, 3 strings of bistro lights with 12 lights per string is around 400 Watts) - Requires the internet to function remotely. I have been waiting for Kasa to come out with some pluggable dimmers for a long time. I was super excited when I saw this product become available. I have at least 30 other Kasa products in my home that I have been happy with. I put this to use right away controlling 45ft of incandescent rope light I have installed around my front porch and it did a great job. The rope lights are 4 watts per foot for a total of about 180 watts (estimated). The dimmer had no problem with them. I would like to see a big brother to this with the ability to handle up to 1000 Watts of incandescent load so it could be used on my bistro lights. I would also like to see Kasa come out with some indoor pluggable dimmer modules.

Ive installed two KP401 (switches, for pump timers) and two KP405 dimmers. The two switches have been outside, turning water-feature pump motors on and off. One of them works reasonably well. The other seems to need reprogramming every few weeks. Im going to try replacing the flaky switch with another KP401, but if that fails Im going over to the YoLink. I would have picked the YoLink because it has much better range, but it is 2x as expensive.

Easy to connect to Alexa. We use it almost daily. It has been outside in the elements all winter with subzero temperatures and has worked great.

I love that it can dim our bistro lights and it works with Alexa perfectly. Easy to set up and use. I would definitely recommend.

Ive installed numerous TP-Link Kasa smart plugs and switches to integrate my home lighting with my Alexa Echos and Show 8 as well as my Ring doorbells and cameras. Im amazed at how well all these different systems work together. I needed an outdoor smart plug to control both some outside Christmas lights as well as a bird bath heater. This Kasa Smart K400 Outdoor Smart Plug works perfectly. Since the two outlets on the plug can be controlled independently, I plugged my heated bird bath into one and my Christmas lights into the other. I especially like the Kasa Android app, which allows you to easily set what time you want the lights to come on and go off. You can also set it to come on at Sunset (or a prescribed number of minutes before or after sunset) (similarly with Sunrise). You can set different times for each day of the week if you want. A very nice and easy to use app. Installation of the Smart Plug was also very straightforward with step-by-step guidance from the app. For my heated bird bath, I set up a routine using the If This Then That (IFTTT) app. I set the heater to turn on if the outside temperature drops below 35 deg F and turn off if the outside temp goes above 35 deg F. One thing to be aware of - the Kasa outlet must not be limited to Local control if you want outside apps such as IFTTT to work with it. For some reason, my outdoor smart plug reverted to local control and there is no obvious way to get out of this state using the app. After researching this on the web, the one solution that seemed to work was to assign the smart plug a reserved DHCP IP address on your home router. I did this and then reset the switch. All works fine now. Bottom line is this is a waterproof outdoor smart outlet that works well, has an easy to use and very flexible controlling app, and integrates nicely into the smart house ecosystem (at least with Alexa, Google Home, and IFTTT which are the ones Ive tried). I would gladly buy this again if I need another one.

I bought some string lights from Costco but they’re pretty bright on my patio. I took a chance and bought this. It works perfectly to dim the strings. I already have several other Kasa products so this was a great addition.